The Tampuccino Incident

Earlier this week Bill Melugin, a reporter for a Fox News affiliate in LA, tweeted a photo of what he claimed was a tampon hidden in an off-duty police officer's frappuccino. The officer had used his police credit union debit card to pay for the drink, which would have alerted the staff to his occupation. The picture Melugin tweeted did not really look like a tampon, as lit was too large and strangely clumpy. The police (and the internet) are now still investigating this incident even though Target (who licenses the Starbucks in question) has reviewed the security footage and said they have not found any suspicious behavior.

This new incident has cropped up around a disturbing number of similar food related cop incidents. Earlier this month, 3 New York cops alleged that their Shake Shack milkshakes had been poisoned. Once the matter was fully investigated (as the police labor union immediately made a large deal about it), they found that the strange taste in the milkshakes were from small amounts of leftover bleach as the milkshake machine had just been cleaned. In addition to this, the milkshakes were a call-in order, so the workers would not have even known that the customers were police officers. So while it was a bad situation that should not have happened, it was not targeted at the officers specifically.There was also a police officer in Kansas who admitted that he had lied about being served a McDonald's coffee with "f-ing pig" written on it. An Indianapolis cop who forgot he had taken a bite out of his McChicken and fries claimed a rogue McDonald's employee had sabotaged his lunch.

Fast-food experiences are not the only thing we can't trust police officers with. Unfortunately, black people can't trust the police not to murder them or plant guns on them. Women can't trust the force to take sexual violence seriously: last year, the Minneapolis Police Department admitted that they had discovered 1500 untested rape kits spanning 30 years in storage. Women also unfortunately can't trust police officers to understand women's basic anatomy. In 2018, a study conducted on the Austin,Texas police department found that the officers in charge of investigating sexual assault couldn't read lab reports, often having to Google parts of the female anatomy.

I am very very frustrated with these new findings, as it seems like some police officers are making themselves the victims. I understand that many of them are on edge with the protests right now, but they had to understand that they would be getting into situations like this when they became police officers. Making up false information or assuming the impossible (as in, they poisoned my drink for being a cop even though they didn't know I was a cop) is never okay to do. Although some police officers' first instinct is violence, they should not assume that others have the same malicious intent.

Have a good week guys and keep hanging in there! Below is another Troy and Abed GIF for y'all to enjoy.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/27/police-lie-fast-food-poisoning-how-can-we-trust-them

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